How do on-air journalists learn about expectations for self-presentation? That’s one of the central questions I take up in my new book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of ...
Opportunities for African Americans in radio and other media have always been extremely limited, but St. Louis’ black deejays and announcers have played a special part. They were some of the nation’s ...
On Jan. 23, 1923, radio station KFDJ made its first formal broadcast — marking the beginning of a new era in public media. It began as the work of Oregon Agricultural College physics instructor Jacob ...